Pronounceable Password Generator

By | April 2, 2004 | .NET

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Gareth Brown has posted a great snippet of code that generates pronounceable passwords. The hope with this, of course, is that users will be more likely to remember passwords if they can say them, yet can’t be dictionary attacked as easily as real words.

However, there is a finite set of possible passwords produced by this generator, so, as Gareth suggests, its more suited for “lost password” functionality, etc.

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Boris Putin May 28, 2006 at 2:45 am

I’m from Moscow.

I can build the function for this in few hours. But it’s much faster to purchase 4aspnet parole for $30 or even crack it :)

Mel January 17, 2006 at 11:05 pm

http://www.4-asp.net/products/parolelite.aspx works great, but NOT FREE…

dilvie December 9, 2004 at 6:34 pm

If you want a pronounceable password generator on-line, check out the one I whipped up in JavaScript, available here:

http://www.makepassword.com/

Jaap July 15, 2004 at 9:12 am

This Works Really GREAT! Thank You!

Richard May 20, 2004 at 7:13 am

Check this one: http://www.4-asp.net/products/parolelite.aspx

AlexW April 2, 2004 at 9:16 pm

Sounds like a nice idea. I’d love to see i in action but I couldn’t see a working example.

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